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New Photos Added: Peter Bogdanovich, George Cukor, Howard Stern, THE COLOR OF MONEY, Norm and Bing Crosby, THE CONVERSATION, etc.

April 26th, 2008 by Scott Marks

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Milton Berle - 3 rare candids at the Professional Children’s School, 1973

Peter Bogdanovich - 20 Photos

Celebrity Endorsements
Tuesday Weld for 7-Up
Peter Lind Hayes stops itching and relieves pain
 Michael Redgrave, Imogene Coca, David Wayne, Jane Powell & Peter Lawford for Bad Meat in the Can, 1957
Judy Holliday for Brides Magazine
 Tom Ewell for Chase and Sanborn Coffee

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The Color of Money - 4 New Photos

Jennifer Connelly - 22 Photos

The Conversation - 6 Photos

Bing Crosby - 5 Photos

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Norm Crosby - 2 Photos

George Cukor - 14 Photos

Jerry Lewis - 8 Photos

Howard Stern - Ad for the WOR Show featuring Bob Hope

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Filter-tipped, Mashed or Au Gratin

Vintage Ads
Spud Cigarettes
Douglas Sirk’s Battle Hymn

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Orson Welles’ THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND completed by Peter Bogdanovich for Showtime

April 17th, 2008 by Scott Marks

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Here we go again.

According to Lawrence French’s interview with Peter Bogdanovich published on Wellesnet.com, Showtime is once again set to bankroll the completion of Orson Welles’ highly anticipated The Other Side of the Wind.

There were rumblings over the years that Showtime commissioned Welles acolyte Peter Bogdanovich to finally put an amen on the project. Bogdanovich, who also stars in the film, was asked by Welles “to finish the picture if anything should ever happen to him. ” In August 2002, the premium channel announced that a deal had been reached to finish and release the film.

At that time Welles’ daughter Beatrice, who controls her father’s estate but has no claim to the film, threatened the deal with a lawsuit saying she owned the film. Shortly thereafter Showtime backed down.

Rumors persisted that the film was never completed, but according to Bogdanovich, “I don’t think we need to shoot anything, but we still have to see all the footage, so we’re not entirely sure. But Orson said he didn’t think there was anything left that needed to be shot.”

There was also talk that Oja Kodar, Welles’ lover at the time of his death, was also acting as a roadblock. Bogdanovich countered those claims by saying, “No, it wasn’t Oja. I don’t want to go into details, but there were some rights we still needed, but hadn’t gotten. But Showtime is still going to go forward with the project. We just have to work out of few more of the rights issues. Since then, I’ve actually seen a lot of the footage I hadn’t seen before, because we got into Oja’s vault in Los Angeles which has all the positive footage. I’d only seen about 40 minutes of the film and now I’ve seen quite a lot of new footage. These are scenes we had shot but Orson never showed them to me. I still haven’t seen everything, because there is so much stuff to look at. It’s the dailies and so on and it looks great.”

A friend noted, “the footage that I’ve seen seemed ragtag, as if it was slapped together.” The only scenes made public were included in Welles’ 1975 AFI Tribute and the documentary The One Man Band. While cimematographer Gary Graver is hardly a worthy substitute for Gregg Toland or Russell Metty, the footage looked remarkably fresh as though the cinema’s supreme experimental filmmaker was still finding new methods of storytelling.

As much as I would love for the San Diego premiere of The Other Side of the Wind to be held in my living room, let’s hope that the film has a theatrical run before hitting cable TV.

The entire transcript of Peter Bogdanovich’s interview can be found here.


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